Key case with sliding hangers



Jan. 28, 1930. Q LORB'ER 1,745,022

' KEY CASE WITH SLIDING HANGERS Filed OCT.. 13, 1927 @j V /y//j/ 1N ENToR'.

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ff f5 /6 75 f Patented Jan. 28, 1930 1 i' CHARLES LORBER, or BLooMrIELD, NEW JERSEY KEY CASE WITH sLrnING RANGERS' Application led October 13, 1927. Serial No.`225,867.

T his invention relates to key cases andhas special reference to a'key case with slidingk hangers. n

One important object of the invention is to provide'an improved form of key case wherein the holder or bar supporting the key hooks is adapted directly, in a novelmanner, to the body of the case so that no metallic plate or the like is necessary and the key case can be constructed in a highly simple and economical manner.

A second important object of the invention is to provide an improved key case of this character wherein the holding bar is secured to the case by ordinary eyelet means such as are used in securing papers and the like together.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of construction and combinations of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically claimed.

In the accompanying drawings like characters ofy reference indicate like parts in the several views, and:

Figure 1 is a face View of one form of the improved case showing the same open.

, Figure 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Figure 1.

Figure 3 is a section on the line 3-8 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an enlarged view of the supporting bar and holder and one of the hooks.

Figure 5 is a detail view similar to Figure 2 but showing a different type of support.

Figure 6 is a detail elevational view showing a second modified form of holder and the hooks suspended therefrom. f

Figure 7 is an enlarged detail view, partly broken. away, on'the line 7-7 of Figure 6.

In the construction of this invention there is provided a body having a main portion 10 and side wings or fiaps 11 which arefmade integrally from the body from any suitable material such as leather, imitation leather or any other well known materials .used for articles of they same or similar character. The side flaps or wings 11 fold over on the body 10'and when so folded may be secured in folded position by snap button parts 12. In the form of the invention shown in Figures 1, 2 and 3V there is provided at the topy of the case a linear member or bar which in this form is la fiat strip of metal 13 having its ends bent at rightV angles to the length of the bar and forced through the body, the extremitiesfof the ends being bent back as at 14 in Figure 2. By this means the barlis secured to the body, the centralv portion of the bar being slightly spaced from the body. On rthis cen- Y tral portion are mounted rings 15 which have headed shanks'l Vwhereon are swiveled key hooks 17. W

' Inthe form shown in Figure 5 the bar itself ismade froma suitable strip of material as shown at 18, this stripbeing, if!desired,'fle'X.-' ible and made from some such material as raw hide or leather. Thestrip 18 is secured 70 to the body 10 by stitching 19 at each end.

On this strip are the usual rings 15 as beforey and these rings also support hooks 17, not deemed necessary to show in this figure.

In the form shown in Figures 6 and 7 the bar takes the shape of a length of wire 20 having each end bent to form an eye 21 which .A is offset from the main portion of the bar and extending through the body 10 and these eyes are the hollow eyelets or rivets 22 which are riveted over the rings 21 and thus secure these rings to the body.

In each of these forms it will be seen that the holder is in the shape of a linear member and that vit has its ends secured to the body 8 of the key case and supports key hooks which are swingingly and swivelly mounted with relation to the bar.

There has thus been provided a simple and efficient device of the kind described and for the. purpose specified.

It is obvious thatmmor changes may be made in the form and construction of the invention without departing from the material :l

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

1. In a key case, a body, a key hook supporting bar consisting of a single length of Wire bent at each end to form an eye, the intermediate portion of the Wire having a straight central portion connected to the eyes by equally inclined portions of equal length, said eyes being thus offset from the central portion to lie parallel to the Central portion in the same plane, and tubular eyelets extending through the body and respective eyes and each having one end expanded to lie flat against the outside of the body and its other end expanded to engage on the eye and conform to the shape ofthe wire forming the eye.

2. In a key case, a body, a key hook supporting bar consisting of a single length of Wire bent at each end to form an eye, the intermediate portion oi" the wire having a straight central portion connected to the eyes by equally inclined portions of equal length, said eyes being thus offset from the central portion to lie parallel to the central portion in the same plane, and tubular eyelets extending through the body and respective eyes and each having one end expanded to lie flat against the outside of the body and its other end expanded to engage on the eye and conform to the shape of the Wire forming the eye g in combination With a plurality of key hooks mounted on the bar for sliding movement longitudinally thereof and swinging movement transversely thereof.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

CHARLES LORBER. 

